Groundhog Day

"I got you, Babe..."

Today is Groundhog Day, which means, according to strict Staubly tradition, we watch the movie by the same title, discuss it at length, and listen to Sonny and Cher's "I Got You, Babe".

We have enjoyed this tradition, without fail, every year since 1994. Four of my five children have been 'born' into this tradition. Not even the oldest can remember a time that we didn't do it, as she was only two when we started it.
Over the years, we have gone from renting the vhs tape, to purchasing the tape, to buying the dvd.
Sometimes it is a group thing, with a party atmosphere.
Sometimes Ron is out of town.
Sometimes Ron is out of town and his friend stays over and stands in for him.
Sometimes kids have insisted they didn't want to participate, but ended up coming in and saying their favorite lines along with the movie, anyway.
The discussions have gone from just basic surface comedy, to religious and philosophical.
As the children grow, their understanding of the movie and their take on it changes and matures. Each year, they get something they didn't get the year before.


Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream... of spring.
- Work Without Hope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge